California · Public charity
San Diego County Bar Foundation
Grants to non-profits that provide access to justice to underserved in San Diego County.
- $487k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $476k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations San Diego County Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $476k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $388k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $426k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $366k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $367k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $394k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $501k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $400k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Think Dignity | $407,500 | 8 | 16% |
| California Western School of Law | $288,500 | 8 | 0% |
| St Vincent de Paul Village Inc | $195,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Uprise Theatre | $126,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Casa Cornelia Legal Services | $102,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The Bail Project Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Conflict Resolution Center | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Elder Law & Advocacy | $97,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Voices for Children | $82,500 | 8 | 0% |
| License to Freedom | $72,000 | 6 | 5% |
Show all 26 grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
San Diego County Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The San Diego Women's Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The California Endowment · California Changelawyers · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Parker Foundation
How this is measured
About San Diego County Bar Foundation
- How much does San Diego County Bar Foundation give?
- San Diego County Bar Foundation reported 26 itemized grants totaling $476,000, out of $486,680 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does San Diego County Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (70%), Civil Rights (13%), Religion (7%).
- Who are San Diego County Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Think Dignity ($408k), California Western School of Law ($289k), St Vincent de Paul Village Inc ($195k).
- Does San Diego County Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as San Diego County Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Price Philanthropies Foundation, Sempra Foundation.
- Where is San Diego County Bar Foundation based?
- San Diego County Bar Foundation is based in CA.
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